Thank you Tribune and to the people that text you the scores, we live about 6 blocks from Maine South and are dieing for the scores. We are old people and remember when the out of town baseball games were telegrafted and read on the radio.
Thank the people that spent the time and money to twick or whatever.

blaha - your comments about Loyola being within 6 show you are an idiot. Maine South is really good, but why can't just admit that Loyola is equally as good? Congrats on your win, and MS deservers to be downstate, but they are hardly unbeatable. Loyola showed that.

Marist-GBN game was awesome! GBN defense was best I have seen in quite some time. Their LB's were all over the place and it took Marist the entire first half to figure them out. GBN was extremely well prepared for this game, and it was game that easily could have gone either way. Marist played great and show tremendous character when they were down, and they made the plays at the end with back to back sacks on GBN last posession. Falloon showed nerves of steel on the kick that won it. I think both the 7A and 8A title games are going to be awesome. I hope the entire MS team thinks like blaha (although I highly doubt it) and takes this game very lightly. I'm sure MS head coach (Insierra?) won't let that happen.

Went to the WWS-ESL game and after ESL first posession, WWS made some adjustments defensively and that was it. WWS is really good and 7A game will be 2 awesome D's slugging it out. ESl fans were nothing short of unbelievable with their amazing lack of sportsmanship. I've never witnessed a teams fans taunting the other teams players during pre-game warmups like I witnessed Saturday afternoon. The comments were so over the top, it was ridiculous. It wasn't one or two fans either, it was many. Some of them went as far as telling the WWS players they were going to get hurt. Unbelievable. For that alone, they deserved to lose. And on the opposite side of that coin, the WWS fans once again showed true class, pre-game, during game and post game. Kudos to your team, your school and your fans. Good luck against GBW. I do have to say that although neutral, I will be pulling for GBW a little because I know one of the boys that starts for GBW. But in either case, just looking for a good game.

The entire clan will be down there for all 8 this weekend. Friday at 10:06 starts the coolest 32 quarters of football regardless of outcomes. Amazing how fast 14 weeks goes by.

What a weekend for high school football. First off, I believe the topic of class needs to be brought up. While at the WWS and ESTL game, the comments by (what I am assuming to be parents of Flyers players) were outrageous. For an adult to trash talk an opposing player is just low. "We gonna break ya'll necks, and ya'll gonn be paralyzed." Just one of the many, many awful remarks from Flyer nation. They should be ashamed of themselves for that. Congratulations to Wheaton on a great game of football, and good luck against Glendbard West at state. Moving onto Marist and their incredible win against an amazing Glenbard North team. I dont think a better game could of been played by either team. One of the best high school football games I have seen in my life. North has nothing to hang their head about, they played an amazing game. Redhawk nation made a very impressive showing last night and packed the stadium. I wouldnt even make a bathroom or concession run because it was too crowded by Redhawk faithfuls. Good luck at state Hawks. The 7A and 8A games should be one for the ages.

For the safety of the fellow bloggers, please excercise extreme caution around Tbone during the Marist game, if you are in attendance. I know from first hand how painful the excitement and celebration can be when you are in his company. Lol. Just kidding guy.

Glad to see Dbone, Danimal, or whatever he is calling himself these days (little danny) so excited about the Marist win last night. All his stressing during the week about the game was finally lifted and I bet he is still going crazy over the fact that Marist is going to state.

Congrats to Marist! As an alumni it is great to see them get back to the state title game. ( I was a sophmore in 86 when they did it) As I live in Florida now I am looking at airfare to fly up and see the game in person. Maybe i will run into the Bones clan there! ms is a quality program but I truly believe Marist has what it takes to pull the upset and win it all.

Guys, did you honestly expect anything more from ESL fans? Come on..I wasnt at the game but my sources said they were typical hack cheap shot artists after they went down..That team will never beat WWS. That team is surrounded by way too much controversy..I wonder how many 18 year old freshman they have on the team this year.. Anyway , on to GW...Its time to give WWS the credit they deserve..They are going to win state and i have thought that for a while now. They will beat GW by at least 2 scores. I was not impressed with GW at all when i saw them..Combine that with weaker GW playoff competition and I dont think they have a chance. I am being as straight and to the point as I can.I guess thats what you get after being in the hospital for a week...Go Tigers..Peace all, Andy D